Month: March 2013

As both NATO and EU seem to be grappling for their identities and so is the Euro-Atlantic relationship, Central European countries find the pillars of their sense of security gone and their perspectives for prosperity dimmed.

The Schengen area has nothing to do with the CVM (despite what the Commission is saying loud and clear), nor with barking at the EU or fawning on Angela Merkel. Access in the Schengen area only relates to a Member State’s capacity to stop networks of organized crime, trafficking or illegal migration from accessing the Union.

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